Accelerating the transformation of the New York representative office of the Soviet Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs into a full-fledged banking office, thereby enabling the Soviet Union to engage in a wide range of banking activities in the United States and increase Soviet personnel, including KGB presence, in New York.

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As Director of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece from 1976 to 1995, he had represented the Ministry in the case of the Continental Shelf of the Aegean Sea in front of the International Court of Justice (The Hague) in 1976.

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Part of a series of seminars for local specialist, the training was organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty and supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO.

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And broadly speaking, he is intensively engaged, as he has been since he took the oath of office, in matters of foreign affairs and national security.

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Add to this the fact that he did not exactly come to office overburdened with knowledge of foreign affairs and you can see why he sometimes looks a little grouchy.

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The presence of this agency has been questioned by many, including Regional President of Lambayeque, Yehude Simon who stated that he would "never" allow such an office to be placed in the region without having first sought the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Regional Government itself.

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